Antiseptic broom.



no. 670,7l3.

Patented nar. 2s, 190|.

u; s. KuLMAN.

ANTISEPTIC BRUOM.

(Application led Dec. 7, 1900.)

A TTOHNEYS UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OSCAR S. KULMAN, OF SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.

ANTISEPTIQBROOM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 670,713, dated March 26, 1901. Application filed December 7, 1900. Serial No. 39,028. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom. it 11m/y concern..-

Beit known that LOsoAE S. KULMAN, of Savannah, in the county of Chatham and State of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Antiseptic Brooms, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an ordinary broom with a holder or retainer for containing an antiseptic material for destroying disease germs in the broom and for distributing small quantities of the antiseptic over the floor-covering for rendering the same antiseptic, the improvement contemplating the permanent incorporation of the retainer for antiseptic material in the broom when it is made.

It consists in a double retainer made of two bags or receptacles connected together by wires or straps, which bags are held in the broom by the rows of stitching through the straws, which stitching is made to cross the wires connecting the bags at a point between the bags, so that the retainers are held by the stitching without the stitching passing through the bags and without other connections.

Figure l is a view of the double retainer for the antiseptic, and Fig. 2is an inside View of a broom having such double retainer secured in place by the line of stitching which secures the straws.

A is AJthe broom, Bits handle, and O the line of stitching which holds the straws in the usual dat form. This broom is made in the usual way; but before being sewed by the line of stitching C a double retainer (shown in Fig. l) is incorporated centrally in the bundle of straws. This retainer has an upper bag a, and a lower bag b, made of fabric or perforated rubber, leather, metal, or other material. These bags are connected together by wires c or by strips of leather, cloth, or other desired material, and when the broomstraws are gathered together and sewed the lines of stitching O are made to cross these wires or strips c at a point between the two antiseptic-bags, so that the latter are permanently held in place in the broom in the original manufacture of the same without any eX- tra expense except the insignificant one of the cost ofthe retainer,which may be very cheaply made.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire t0 secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture a retainer for containing antiseptics for incop0ration in a broom, consisting of two separate bags or receptacles for the antiseptic spaced apart and connected together by strips adapted to be caught in and retained by the line of stitching of the broom substantially as described.

2. Abroomhavingincorporatedin the same a double retainer,one section above, and the other below the line of stitching, and connected together by strips extending through the line of stitching substantially as described.

OSOAR S. KULMAN.

Witnesses:

D. W. ANDREWS, AAHEON SHOUTER. 

